The present study examined substance refusal skills of 44 conduct-disordered male adolescents. Fifty percent of these adolescents were dually diagnosed with substance abuse/dependence. Substance refusal skills were assessed utilizing a role-play test that consisted of four interpersonal scenarios in which a confederate prompted youths to engage in illicit drug and alcohol activity. The test dem...

The selectivity of the intracellular 85 kDa phospholipase A2 (PLA2-85) towards fatty acids closely related to arachidonic acid has been investigated, using purified PLA2-85 from J774 cells and mixed phospholipids, dually acyl-chain-labelled in the sn-2 position. In parallel experiments, we assessed the acyl-chain selectivity of the release process in intact, dually labelled, peritoneal mouse ma...

In this paper we introduce homogeneously orderable graphs which are a common generalization of distance-hereditary graphs, dually chordal graphs and homogeneous graphs. We present a characterization of the new class in terms of a tree structure of the closed neighborhoods of homogeneous sets in 2-graphs which is closely related to the defining elimination ordering. Moreover, we characterize the...

A complicating factor affecting the treatment of individuals with coexisting substance use problems and serious mental illness is their motivation for change and how these interacting, chronic conditions affect the entire process of intentional behavior change. This selective review explores conceptual and assessment issues related to readiness to modify substance use and readiness to initiate ...

In this paper, we begin to study the subalgebra lattice of a Leibniz algebra. particular, deal with algebras whose is modular, upper semi-modular, lower distributive, or dually atomistic. The fact that non-Lie algebra has fewer one-dimensional subalgebras in general results number conditions being weaker than Lie case.

The dual flatness for Riemannian metrics in information geometry has been extended to Finsler metrics. The aim of this paper is to study the dual flatness of the so-called (α, β)-metrics in Finsler geometry. By doing some special deformations, we will show that the dual flatness of an (α, β)-metric always arises from that of some Riemannian metric in dimensional n ≥ 3.

Care coordination has been identified as a potential method of achieving the triple aim in health care—improving outcomes and care quality while reducing costs. Well-designed, targeted care coordination entails comprehensive coverage of services across a coordinated provider team working together to provide high-quality, patient-centered care. This model, however, faces significant challenges a...